Kids these days...

Nebb · December 2009

I feel like such an old stodger saying this, but what is up with kids these days? Im talking to my little brother (in grade 9) and he is telling me stories of kids he goes to school with. Apparently a teacher tried to reprimand a student and she told the teacher to "watch her mouth". I dont know WHAT the hell has happened to kids now a days but there is absolutely no respect or manners there.

What are your thoughts on this?

shellydiane820 · December 2009

I feel like we just had this thread the other day.

Nebb · December 2009

Did we? how did I miss that?

jessjo04 · December 2009

DH and I feel the same way about music. WTF is up with that song "you get my car seat all wet, my pants get bigger...", I obviously don't know the exact words, but that crap is nasty.

[Deleted User] · December 2009

i didn't see it either. but i get flamed regularly for sharing your opinion. because the problem these days is that parents can do no wrong. according to them.

Night_Sprite · December 2009

Jill, I still love that siggy pic.

I don't know about kids, but I find the thought of parenthood terrifying. Having to be responsible for one I created seems unpleasant.

nda_roxybabe · December 2009

Dude. I'm talking to my 13 y/o niece about how crappy her life is.
She said shes on sleeping meds and anti depressents for her anger, got in a fight with her bff at school and they punched eachother, her cousins are going into foster care and she tried to kill her self but decided not to?

I don't even know whatt to say. I had a pretty cushy (sp?) life and my biggest drama was bff stuff and boys not liking me...

salt78 · December 2009

I have a brother in 9th grade too. He is really well mannered, but some of his friends scare the shiit out of me.

salt78 · December 2009

PS I agree about Jill's sig pic. It reminds me of a movie still.

Nebb · December 2009

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_kids-days-2?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:b6cbd915-3e46-491f-aa23-1dd4a9a58ad7Post:3041b2ee-490e-41a2-9df6-10854acd0425">Re: Kids these days...</a>:
[QUOTE]I have a brother in 9th grade too. He is really well mannered, but some of his friends scare the shiit out of me.
Posted by salt78[/QUOTE]
Me too. My brother is incredibly well mannered and smart, on student council and really smart. He says all of his friends drink and do drugs. Theyre frigging 13/14 years old. What is that.

Night_Sprite · December 2009

Good for your brother for not being a complete idiot, Nebb.

salt78 · December 2009

I dealt with a lot of that over the summer. Brother was hanging out with some questionable kids while he was on summer break. One of them straight up asked me if I would buy them a 30 pack of beer. Brother was SO PISSED at him.

Obviously I did not buy them a 30 pack of beer.

bbyckes · December 2009

The sense of entitlement and lack of respect has got them all out of wack.

My son is well-mannered, but it's work to keep him humble and grounded.

tidetravel · December 2009

Seeing as how I'm about to have a girl, I'm beginning to think that chastity belts should come back in style. Kids can get the key on their 18th birthday.

Nebb · December 2009

Yeah, it seems like kids are giving it up earlier and earlier too. Thats just scary. Kids scare me, they literally scare me.

salt78 · December 2009

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_kids-days-2?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:b6cbd915-3e46-491f-aa23-1dd4a9a58ad7Post:7fc7774d-cbd1-4280-abd0-b470bbb1cc35">Re: Kids these days...</a>:
[QUOTE]My son is well-mannered, but it's work to keep him humble and grounded.
Posted by bbyckes[/QUOTE]

No kidding! My dad has done such a great job with my three brothers, but it's been a rough road. To be honest, I'm beside myself with happiness at how well they are turning out...they had a major tragedy with their mom several years ago.

YaPuppy · December 2009

Agree big time. Before I started working in an office I had a babysitting job...my first day on the job the little girl (9 years old) called me into the playroom to watch her and her friends talent show dance. I think they wanted me to clap at the end but I was in a little too much shock over the Britney Spears-ness of it all. The parents could not have been more proud.

I suppose after that nothing should have surprised me. Comments like "whatever, we have a maid she'll clean it later" and "If my mommy and daddy don't care then you shouldn't either" were a regular occurance. Good times. Parents these days rock for sure

thesuninherhead · December 2009

My thoughts are that every generation has been saying the same thing about the following generation for as long as we've been documenting our thoughts.

"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"

-Plato.

thesuninherhead · December 2009

(and yes, I had serious dejavu with this thread. I swear we had a thread with the same title (started by you, Nebb?) a few days ago. My dejavu was so strong that I refreshed my page thinking it had defaulted to old posts).

salt78 · December 2009

Yeah I guess I was pretty inflamed with wild notions when I was a teenager.

shellydiane820 · December 2009

I don't like most kids, I feel like they are rude and have no respect for anything.

Just yesterday at the office, we were doing a refi closing and the parents weren't watching their kid. I left my seat a minute, I come back he is in files that are to be sent to the bank, then after they leave, there is water all over the floor, and around the water cooler, and we are out of cups because they were all pulled out of the holder and thrown on the floor and sitting on the window.

Night_Sprite · December 2009

I wish we could go to a rave together Salt. I think that would be awesome. I would also rock some pink hair dye, just for you.

salt78 · December 2009

Ameri-something...I feel bad I can't remember her name...she started a thread the other day about some teenager that screamed an insult at her out a car window. That was the most recent bad kid thread I remember.

brookelynpaisley · December 2009

Every single time we're in a mall, either DH or I make the comment that we'll never let our kid leave the house like that/talkto us like that/be in a mall unsupervised at that age. But then I wonder if their parents said the same thing.

I wasn't always a good kid, but I was nothing like the kids I see today. It's ridiculous.

salt78 · December 2009

Sprite - That would be the most wonderful thing ever, but we would have to make it the mid-90's again because I cannot for the life of me stay up all night anymore.

thesuninherhead · December 2009

I know I rioted in the streets inflamed with wild notions when I was a teen, too.

We've been complaining about kids today for as long as we've been talking, apparently. I honestly think it's just a generational thing. It's funny that the 'kids today' are very rarely our kids, or our siblings, but the unknown 'other' kids of parents that we aren't friends with.

Night_Sprite · December 2009

We'll go mid 90s for you and 2004 for me. I was my most ridiculous in 2004.

Nebb · December 2009

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_kids-days-2?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:b6cbd915-3e46-491f-aa23-1dd4a9a58ad7Post:d28eb278-ff96-4caa-b631-1490db91445a">Re: Kids these days...</a>:
[QUOTE]I wish we could go to a rave together Salt. I think that would be awesome. I would also rock some pink hair dye, just for you.
Posted by Night_Sprite[/QUOTE]
I get to go too. I was totally a dirty raver when I was a kid.

I dont remember any thread like this days ago, and im always on here (thats sad).

Night_Sprite · December 2009

We need a big ass awesome gtg. I want to be drunk with you bitches.

tmm140 · December 2009

I taught 5th grade for 2 years and the things they would say was unbelievable. I would NEVER in a million years say something like they would say to ANY adult, let alone a teacher. I think children these days know they can get away with things a lot more then in the "olden" days.

mwhitson14 · December 2009

I do agree that a lot of the blame is on the parents, but kids are just different. They're angrier, quick to fight, they have no common sense, and they can just be downright hateful. I've seen it as young as 2nd grade. I don't often know a lot of the home life, but it does amaze me how bad a kid can get so young.

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